Baking

[melodysparks]

I baked today. One of my favourtie hobbies is cooking and baking. There is something about taking a bunch of raw ingrediants and blending them together and creating something tasty.

I must admit that I am a dab hand at muffins and cupcakes especially blueberry muffins and carrot cake cupcakes but my specialities are Baked Luscious Lemon Cheesecake, Lemon Meringue Pie and assorted quiches.

When I go out on a photowalk with Nottingham Flickr Group I always take along a few tasty treats for our coffee break. I think I spoil them all but its one of the things I like to do. Usually I take 3 flasks of boiling water and a small one of cold milk, teabags, instant coffee and hot chocolate mix along with my baked goodies.

For our trip to Foxton Locks last year I made Red Velvet with vanilla icing decorated with Chocolate and Red White & Blue Sugar Balls, Lemon and Blackberry Muffins with Strawberry Frosting and Red White and BLue Sugar Balls and White Chocolate Stars, Carrot Cake with Vanilla Frosting and Red White and Blue Sugar Balls, Chocolate cheesecake tartlets and Carrot Cake Muffins with Vanilla Frosting and Chocolate shavings and Chocolate Sugar Balls. They all went down a treat along with the hot chocolate, tea and coffee.





Today I baked a ham, cheese and red and yellow bell pepper quich and Tomato, ham and mozerella tarte.

The tarte was tasty but the flaky puff pastry soaked up too much of the tomato so it was a bit limp, oh well it was a first try but the quiche came our superb as usual. I doubt I will get any of the quiche as my hubby will no doubt pig out on it for his tea tomorrow night.

Now tea is over I can settle down to the second part of NCIS two parter Engaged.

Comments

[fangedsekhmet.livejournal.com]

Oh my, those look epic! I can usually never get cakes to rise well, so I'm alway envious of those who create awesome food.

The cheesecake tartlets sound wonderful.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Im sure you don’t have problems that often I always do when I try a new recipe I just practice it until I get it right.

Most of my recipes are from the internet especially the red velvet one, it took 3 failures to make before I got the mix right the first one was a major disaster but that was because the recipe was so wrong in proportions and when to add ingredients. The first attempt said to add the bicarbonate of soda to the vinegar and then add to the mix; bad idea acid and soda react together and I ended up with the batter mix frothing up all over the place. The bottom of my oven has never been the same since.

My lemon and blackberry muffins took quite a few attempts cause the blackberries kept sticking to the bottom for some reason then I discovered that considering I had a fan assisted over the temperature quoted needed to be reduced by 20 degrees for the batter to cook right.

The chocolate tartes were pastry case made from store bought pastry filled with my cheesecake filling. The came out ok to me I didn’t like them much but everyone else liked them

I also use measuring cups and spoons rather than scales which I have found to be more accurate as my kitchen scales are not brilliant and cross my fingers.

I often have mishaps only my hubby knows about those. ;-)

[fangedsekhmet.livejournal.com]

Ah, mishaps:D I've learned over the years that if a member of my family describes something I've cooked as 'different' it's usually a polite way of saying they never want it to darken their door again *l*

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean

[wild7orchid.livejournal.com]

OMG! They look so tasty!! I'd love to eat them all. :))

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Thank you

May favourite were the carrot cake muffins